Android - The Basics

Introduction to Programming in Java (knowledge of the concepts of class, attribute, method, inheritance, interfaces, overloading, etc.)

Android is Google's mobile operating system. This course demonstrates through hands-on practice the fundamentals of Android.

Android System Architecture. Operating environment

• Discussion of the overall architecture of the system Android (Linux kernel, core libraries, JVM, etc.)
• Preparation of the working environment (Eclipse + Android SDK). Methods of debugging the program. Discussion of tools such as adb, draw9patch, DDMS, emulator, etc.
• Activity life cycle. Implementation and performance analysis methods onCreate, onStart, OnResume, OnPause, OnDestroy.
• Data structure design androidowego (src directories, res, xml file AndroidManifest.xml, permissions)
• The rules for creating layouts. Examples of Linear-class implementation, Frame-, table-, RelativeLayout.
• Implementation loading layouts from XML files and from within the application. Gravity class.
• Create menus and dialogs. Implementation and event handling class menu and classes that inherit the dialogue.

Support graphics and touch interface

• Review and implementation of the View class methods and drawable.
• Gestures - touch event processing. The implementation class methods TouchEvent
• implementation of the basic 'building blocks' of the software for Android. Implementation classes TextView, Button, Checkbox, ListView, etc.)
• Notification class implementation

Access to the other activities and services running in the background, multithreading

• Intent class overview - what it does.
• Running other activities. Implementation of the method startActivity () and onActivityResult ().
• Starting and communication services operating in the background. Discussion and implementation methods of the class Service.
• broadcasts
• Threads and Multithreading. Implementation AsyncTask class.
• Synchronization. Implementation synchronize blocks and synchronized methods.

Service Location

• The basic theoretical information about GPS, WGS84, digital maps (GoogleMaps, OpenStreetMap, BingMaps, etc.)
• Event handling GPS. Implementation LocationListener class methods.
• Drawing icons and objects on the map.
• Extracting the coordinates of the click on the map.

Other

• Service settings are stored on the device. Class Preferences.
• Access to remote network services. Implementation classes HttpPost / HttpGet.
• parsing data structures in XML and JSON. Read and write files on the device.
• SQLite CONTENTMANAGER.
• Sensors, Cameras, OpenGL.